Lutsenko Ready To Participate In Prison Labor At Mena Penal Colony
Former interior affairs minister Yurii Lutsenko is ready to participate in prison labor at the Mena penal colony No. 91 (Chernihiv region).
Lutsenko said this in an interview with the Focus magazine.
“I am ready to do everything that prisoners are doing at this colony. I do not need any concessions or privileges,” said Lutsenko.
He said he was ready to use the sewing job offered to him to make canvas gloves with the inscription “The Fate of Ukraine is in Your Hands!” as a campaign material for the current election campaign.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the State Penitentiary Service transferred Lutsenko from the Lukianivka remand prison (Kyiv) to the Mena penal colony on August 31.
On August 17, the Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv sentenced Lutsenko to two years in prison for negligence of duty during extension of a surveillance operation as part of the investigation of the case involving the poisoning of former presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko.
The court ruled that Lutsenko is to serve this sentence concurrently with his previous four-year sentence for abuse of office.
In February, the State Penitentiary Service announced that former prime minister and leader of the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Association party Yulia Tymoshenko had refused to participate in prison labor at the Kachanivska women’s penal colony No. 54 (Kharkiv) because of her state of health.